CHAPTER XVI 

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' Is May and Juno come rose* of all kind*, except tho 

 mu*k, which comes later,' nays Kicon ; and though I 

 AO far follow his lead a* to place the ro*e among 

 the chief glories of the garden in June, and though it 

 in in June that they are seen in the fullest abumiancc 

 and beauty, yet it is one of the great charm* of the 

 rose that they brighten our garden* for no many months 

 of the year. We may almost say that, weather per- 

 mitting, a good garden i* never entirely without rose* 

 in flower. I have picked good flowers from the monthly 

 China roses in January, and in isss I picked a good 

 bunch of fairy roses on Christmas Eve. I know of no 

 other flower that can come near the rose in thia respect ; 

 the daisy possibly comes the nearest. This may per- 

 haps be gathered during nine months of the year, but 

 very seldom in November, December, and January. 



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